Birthday Boy

Happy birthday to Number One Son who turned 39 today.

You know you’re old when two of your kids are that close to 40. Vegan Chickie will be 41 in March.

Thank goodness for Bubbles who helps me feel just a touch younger.

It was a busy day in the shop with good sales.

The clothing arrived as expected so I spent all the time between customers steaming, pricing and displaying. There is still more to do and these are priced in the mid range.

I was pretty exhausted when I got home so I watched my fave Tipping Point and was struggling to keep my eyes open so I popped into bed for a power nap.

That did the trick and by the time I awoke, Adoring Husband had dinner ready.

We all played trivia and I won!! Just pipped AH at the post. BGWLBH was not having a good night. 

She and I played Scrabble afterwards and I defeated her by 179 points!!! Woot! Woot!

We made a happy birthday video to send to No 1 Son and I played Pop Master.

It’s 9.30pm and I’m ready for some more sleep, although I’m feeling a bit peckish. Perhaps a late night snack is on the cards?

Nite all.

Super Quiet

I had a good nights sleep, but a bad start to the day ... you know those days when you try on everything in your wardrobe and it all feels and looks terrible? That was my morning.

Because of that, I was late opening the shop.

Not that it mattered because only 2 people came into the shop before 1pm 😳

10 people came through the door between 1pm and 1.30pm.

Needless to say, it was a slow day for sales.

However! More stock arrived! So I was busy checking, pricing and displaying for most of the time.

I hope that some of the new clothes will arrive tomorrow and that should be it for ordering until after February.

While Adoring Husband manned the shop for the last 15 minutes, Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair and I drove into The Bay for a quick shopping trip.

On the recommendation of BGWLBH, I purchased this book ...

I got two tops and some perfume and we did a quick walk through the almost empty Target. There were no bargains to be found but we were surprised and disappointed to see that they were closing down. 

Apparently it may not be a permanent situation, so I guess we’ll wait and see.

We returned home by 4pm, and after an hour of rest time we prepared Peking Duck with sweet potato chips and salad for dinner.

The usual game of trivia and the usual winner 😳

Now it’s time to sleep, because as my new book tells me, sound and solid sleep is the foundation for strong health!

Nite all.

Productivity

I put Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair to work in the training room today.

She created order out of the chaos within those cupboards and drawers and then labelled it all to make my life even easier.

In between customers, following BGWLBH’s orders/instructions/requests, I priced and displayed most of the stock that had arrived yesterday.

The day passed very quickly and sales were average.

After an hour resting my butt on the couch, Adoring Husband drove me to the beach to meet BGWLBH for an afternoon walk on the beach at low tide.

We returned home and prepared a healthy dinner. White and orange sweet potato chips, sausages and three different salads.

We played trivia - I won!! Woot! Woot!

It’s 10pm and I’m ready to sleep.

Nite all.

Full On

Because Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair was taking Adoring Husband into The Bay early for his appointment to have an MRI, I had to ride to work and open the shop on my own.

I was running a little late so Lady Lynn, who was the first to arrive for our coffee morning, became my assistant and made my life easier. It was such a pleasant surprise to have her join us! 

Our numbers were down a bit and customers took me away from the table a few times.

Six boxes of stock arrived so the girls hung around to watch me open the boxes and they got first dibs on the treasures that emerged!

After they left, I realised that I’d left my journaling lesson at home and there was nobody available to deliver it to me. 

😳

Luckily, I have very understanding participants. They were cool with me telling them the subject matter while they wrote everything down.

They were excited about the subject for today and there was lots of discussion and sharing of experiences. We did 20 minutes of timed writing and we nibbled on the leftover crackers and dip from our Christmas party.

Sales were not huge today but there were a lot of people in for a look. Maybe they’ll return some time this week to spend.

My cleaner came in for her weekly hour of dusting and one of the journaling participants helped me display some of the new stock that I’d priced.

I cooked duck breast and vegetables for dinner and made a mandarin sauce.

We played trivia.

I played Popmaster.

Now it’s almost 11pm so I’d best get some sleep.

Nite all.

Windy City

It was mighty windy in The Bay today!

Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair and I had our legal appointment there this afternoon and now our business is complete and finalised.

Except for the fact that Fire n Ice clothing store was closed (it’s closed every Monday and doesn’t open until 10am for the rest of the week), we had a great day.

Adoring Husband and I cleared the training room at the shop ready for morning tea with the girls and journaling in the afternoon.

Dinner was very boring leftover cold lamb with leftover salad.

BGWLBH won trivia again! 😳

It’s 10pm and I’m ready to sleep now.

Nite all.

Freak Me Out!

Last night, I set my alarm for 7am because we planned to leave home at 8.30am to meet The Brains Trust at the cinema where we were going to view “The Dry”.

For some strange unknown reason, my alarm did NOT go off and even stranger ... I slept until 8.15am!!

I jumped out of bed and ran to Beautiful Girl With Long Blonde Hair’s room to show her that I was not ready and still in my PJs.

She questioned whether we would still be going and as I disappeared from her view I called out while shuffle running down the hall “Yes of course! I can be ready in 15 minutes!”

Twenty minutes later I emerged fully dressed, draped in jewellery, make up applied, hair brushed and bag packed ready to go!

I sent a text to The Brains Trust to tell her that we were running later than planned but would still arrive on time and just moments later she phoned to tell me that she was driving  right behind us!

We greeted each other in the car park and joined the long queue to purchase our movie tickets. Luckily, most of the patrons were seeing a different movie to us and our cinema was the newly renovated number five.

The seats almost felt like business class on a plane. Lush and leathery and spacious and comfortable. 

For an Aussie movie, it was pretty good. Very similar to The Dressmaker and Eric Bana has certainly gained a little sex appeal as he’s grown older! However the movie left us with more questions than answers and we agreed that we needed to read the book to hopefully fill in the blanks.

After the movie, we parted ways. BGWLBH and I drove to the supermarket for a grocery shop and then headed home for some lunch because we were starving! BGWLBH had forgotten to take her meds this morning and because I was running late, we didn’t get our morning smoothie so it was a double negative whammy!

At home I unpacked the groceries, made a light lunch for everyone and then sat down to eat my own lunch, after which I read the paperwork that I have to sign in front of a solicitor tomorrow, watched some TV with Adoring Husband, put the giant leg of lamb in the oven and lay down for a 40 minute rest.

We had roast lamb with seven vegetables and home made gravy for dinner.

We played trivia and guess who won? Not me. Not AH.

AH and I watched our recording of I’m a Celebrity before coming to bed and now it’s almost 11.30pm and I have to sleep.

Nite all.